Sunday, October 20, 2013

“Are you going to be rich?” That is the first question people ask me
upon finding out that in the wee morning hours of October 17, the famed
street artist Banksy painted a mural on the side of a building my family owns in East Williamsburg.

The truth is — at the end of an exhausting day filled with phone
calls talking to lawyers, security companies, art experts, and reporters
— I have no idea what it means. There is no rule book when one of the
most famous artists in the world decides to drop his work into your
life.